So, like, when DR-DOS and the other MS-DOS clones were pushed out of existence, it didn't affect M$'s ability to tie-in other products with their death grip on the OS?
remember, whoever controls the desktop (and therefore, by extension, the browser) controls the infrastructure. Microsoft just dropped Hailstorm because of lack of corporate interest? OK, then, let them get their hooks into whatever alternate standard emerges. That embrace-and-extend will be awful interesting to see!
Wanna ensure that.Net is the only game in town? Make sure that IE is the only interface to first-class.Net objects! Sure, you can code in any language; but with apologies to Orwell, "all (languages) are created equal, but some are more equal than others".
Control the OS and you control the PC game. Control the browser and you can control the web object game. You don't suppose that lesson's been lost on the 'softies, now, do you?
OK... so you've established that $0.25 / track is worth a whole lot more in India than in the States.
Why, then, are the bells going off in my head, telling me that RIAA will use the argument, "We tried. It cost only a quarter a song, and it failed. See! That business model doesn't work!"
and, of course, they couldn't help but take a jab at Linux.
on the other hand, though, I wonder if you have to renice M$ software down to get back to the performance Windoze users are used to...?
so, what's the thought behing the ads here? diehard Mac addicts will think, "M$ hates Unix, therefore Unix is good, and therefore Mac is awesome since they embrace Unix..."?
Or maybe, "Open Source is good, Linux is Open Source, OS X is better than Linux, therefore Mac rocks..."?
OK... let's suppose the judge who hears this one (assuming, of course, they don't settle for a laughably small sum to go with all the free publicity they've milked this one for) is on crack, and sides with the plaintiff.
what would've been established is that the author of a creative work wouldn't have the right to depict a person/place/thing that's somewhat like a something in the real world (note all those disclaimers at the end of the credits of every movie "blah blah blah this work doesn't depict any person blah blah blah").
so, if this suit holds, a movie maker won't be able to depict any site without permission, and, likely, won't be able to get permission without some serious licensing fees.
won't happen. the consequences are untenable for any creative activity...
OK... so, it seems to me that you'd want your valuable gov't IT workers to take part in the the cross-pollenation.
That being the case, shouldn't that mean that the higher-profile (and higher-clearance) folks are the ones to trade places?
so, doesn't that imply that you either have to swap with private-sector folks with clearances, or go through the process of getting clearance for the private-sector folks?
meaning, of course, that this'll create a high-cost, lengthy approval process for (many) of the swaps?
Folks seem adamant that automatic expiration of code is a bad idea; on the face of it, I'd have to agree.
Maybe it's not an idea totally devoid of merit for binary installations, but for installs that included compile steps, it just doesn't seem to make sense.
However, I'm curious what/.'ers think about automated upgrade detection, a la virus protection programs?
It'd be difficult to co-ordinate, and would work best in some sort of centralized location (or, at least, in a few locations. maybe by OS (Linux tools) or by application (I'm thinking logical groupings of apps here).
Wow... and we thought that the recent increase in size of on-line ads was atrocious. imagine how big they'll have to be (and how obnoxious the new animated ads will get), once marketers realize they're competing for fewer eyeballs...
Last month, needing a new surge protector / power strip for my TV system, I noticed that the surge protectors in the computer department cost half as much as the ones in the video department.
when I asked the salesman in the video department about cables i also needed, and he saw that i had a surge protector (different from those in his department), he tried to pitch his units.
i asked him the difference between his and the ones across the store. "oh, these ones are specially made for home entertainment systems."
i was intrigued, and asked him exactly how. "oh, the voltage is different, and these are made for TV systems circuits."
Jack "Chicken Little" Valenti says that DVD pirating is a $3 billion dollar venture that threatens the very motion picture / entertainment industry.
so, to make a dent in this insidious threat, they bust *1* guy, with 2 PCs, 15 burners, and 1000 illegal copies of videos.
so, Jack, the barbarians are at the gate. to combat this problem, you've taken out a garden-variety copier. Makes me think that either (1) internet copiers are way, way difficult to find, or (2) they're a red herring.
Somehow, I doubt that this beastie is capturing sequences of CCD images, processing them in real time, and feeding the screen "keypress" data.
I'd buy that it's a rasterized barcode scanner bundled with some cool code. Sure, you might get some obstruction/multiple-hit issues, but I'd imagine you could solve them with an elegant enough algorithm, taking into account length of time of obstruction, sequences of obstruction based on last direction (i.e., if J, M, and are obstructed, you're "pressing" the J).
I wonder if there are any reflectivity issues, though, between different skin types, cosmetics (nail polish), ambient light conditions, etc.
Cool tech, though -- it'd rock to get a definitive answer!
Look -- it's not about arguing whether kiddie pron is a good thing. it's not about whether i should have the right to view or disseminate it.
it's all about whether i trust my state government to block these sites effectively without (1) infringing on my privacy, (2) infringing on my rights to view other, non-kiddie-pron, constitutionally-protected discourse, and (3) opening the door to more heinous abuses of power.
From the link:
Valenti wrote: "What's keeping the movie industry from making its creativity theft-proof? Simply put, in order to transport movies as agreed to by the consumer on a rent, buy, or pay-per-view basis with heightened security, computers and video devices must be prepared to react to instructions embedded in the film."
(Emphasis mine.)
Sure! As long as you keep your copy protection on film, vaya con Dios, buddy! Just keep those instructions out of the bitstream...!
umm... no. he says that that interpreted lang's have relegated compiled lang's to a niche role: high performance computing.
anyway, although I'm a Java prosyletizer, I think that defining the world as either interpreted lang or high performance computing causes high performance computing to be, oh... 80% of the world?
Earlier this season, KDKA, the Pittsburgh CBS affiliate, was caught using this technology to compress out enough time from a Steelers game to insert an additional 30 second commercial. The NFL wasn't amused.
see http://www.radiocrow.com/news_docs/caught.htm for details.
Remember the good old days, when radio lagged behind TV? Even yesterday, I was going nuts, because I'd hear Myron Cope make the call ~2 seconds before I saw it on TV!
I noticed the description of how the key logger worked, vis-a-vis modem operation, too.
Doesn't this imply that, if you believe their description, one could circumvent the key logger by simply sending bytes out to the modem continuously (AT... AT... AT...)?
Until, of course, the Feds found out, and got a wiretap permit, too, and changed the key logger to work at all times...
oh beautiful..
so, in a crowded room, instead of getting hit with that array of annoying songs/rings/whatever, we'll get bombarded by the sound of a hundred TVs transmitting snow?!?!
whoa! timeout!
as said in another reply here, when you buy a car, you probably *do* have a collection of components manufactured by a number of companies.
Taking your analogy a step further...
remember those commercials where ford (?) recommended that you only replace parts with others from their parts company? (sorry.. can't remember right now... "genuine ac-delco parts"??)
well, the upstart here is, if you have microsoft shocks, sorry! you *must* use a microsoft engine! and, if you want to sell a car with microsoft shocks, you had to sign an agreement allowing you to use *only* microsoft engines!
yeek...
stop the presses! to benefit users, Microsoft has created a new performance metric: Average Distance Between Bytes!
Wow! IE minimizes ADBB! Now I feel a lot better!
... let's see those HD sets *fly* off the shelves when consumers see that they can't record those episodes of Baywatch, or the Simpsons, or whatever...
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remember, whoever controls the desktop (and therefore, by extension, the browser) controls the infrastructure. Microsoft just dropped Hailstorm because of lack of corporate interest? OK, then, let them get their hooks into whatever alternate standard emerges. That embrace-and-extend will be awful interesting to see!
Wanna ensure that .Net is the only game in town? Make sure that IE is the only interface to first-class .Net objects! Sure, you can code in any language; but with apologies to Orwell, "all (languages) are created equal, but some are more equal than others".
Control the OS and you control the PC game. Control the browser and you can control the web object game. You don't suppose that lesson's been lost on the 'softies, now, do you?
Why, then, are the bells going off in my head, telling me that RIAA will use the argument, "We tried. It cost only a quarter a song , and it failed. See! That business model doesn't work!"
on the other hand, though, I wonder if you have to renice M$ software down to get back to the performance Windoze users are used to...?
so, what's the thought behing the ads here? diehard Mac addicts will think, "M$ hates Unix, therefore Unix is good, and therefore Mac is awesome since they embrace Unix..."?
Or maybe, "Open Source is good, Linux is Open Source, OS X is better than Linux, therefore Mac rocks..."?
hmm... looks like I found something to do during that 4/21 slashdot comment boycott!
what would've been established is that the author of a creative work wouldn't have the right to depict a person/place/thing that's somewhat like a something in the real world (note all those disclaimers at the end of the credits of every movie "blah blah blah this work doesn't depict any person blah blah blah").
so, if this suit holds, a movie maker won't be able to depict any site without permission, and, likely, won't be able to get permission without some serious licensing fees.
won't happen. the consequences are untenable for any creative activity...
That being the case, shouldn't that mean that the higher-profile (and higher-clearance) folks are the ones to trade places?
so, doesn't that imply that you either have to swap with private-sector folks with clearances, or go through the process of getting clearance for the private-sector folks?
meaning, of course, that this'll create a high-cost, lengthy approval process for (many) of the swaps?
Maybe it's not an idea totally devoid of merit for binary installations, but for installs that included compile steps, it just doesn't seem to make sense.
However, I'm curious what
It'd be difficult to co-ordinate, and would work best in some sort of centralized location (or, at least, in a few locations. maybe by OS (Linux tools) or by application (I'm thinking logical groupings of apps here).
what do ya'll think?
Yeah.
if your nick is "czardonic", why's your sig say " к" and not " к"? (I guess, alternately, why's your nick not "tsardonic"?)
Were you trying to get to "sardonichnyj"?
(Can you tell it's a slow day at the office...?)
when I asked the salesman in the video department about cables i also needed, and he saw that i had a surge protector (different from those in his department), he tried to pitch his units.
i asked him the difference between his and the ones across the store. "oh, these ones are specially made for home entertainment systems."
i was intrigued, and asked him exactly how. "oh, the voltage is different, and these are made for TV systems circuits."
yeah. thanks, dude. now go away...
Jack "Chicken Little" Valenti says that DVD pirating is a $3 billion dollar venture that threatens the very motion picture / entertainment industry.
so, to make a dent in this insidious threat, they bust *1* guy, with 2 PCs, 15 burners, and 1000 illegal copies of videos.
so, Jack, the barbarians are at the gate. to combat this problem, you've taken out a garden-variety copier. Makes me think that either (1) internet copiers are way, way difficult to find, or (2) they're a red herring.
hmm... wonder what's more believable here...
I'd buy that it's a rasterized barcode scanner bundled with some cool code. Sure, you might get some obstruction/multiple-hit issues, but I'd imagine you could solve them with an elegant enough algorithm, taking into account length of time of obstruction, sequences of obstruction based on last direction (i.e., if J, M, and are obstructed, you're "pressing" the J).
I wonder if there are any reflectivity issues, though, between different skin types, cosmetics (nail polish), ambient light conditions, etc.
Cool tech, though -- it'd rock to get a definitive answer!
it's all about whether i trust my state government to block these sites effectively without (1) infringing on my privacy, (2) infringing on my rights to view other, non-kiddie-pron, constitutionally-protected discourse, and (3) opening the door to more heinous abuses of power.
From the link: Valenti wrote: "What's keeping the movie industry from making its creativity theft-proof? Simply put, in order to transport movies as agreed to by the consumer on a rent, buy, or pay-per-view basis with heightened security, computers and video devices must be prepared to react to instructions embedded in the film." (Emphasis mine.) Sure! As long as you keep your copy protection on film, vaya con Dios, buddy! Just keep those instructions out of the bitstream...!
umm... no. he says that that interpreted lang's have relegated compiled lang's to a niche role: high performance computing.
anyway, although I'm a Java prosyletizer, I think that defining the world as either interpreted lang or high performance computing causes high performance computing to be, oh... 80% of the world?
Earlier this season, KDKA, the Pittsburgh CBS affiliate, was caught using this technology to compress out enough time from a Steelers game to insert an additional 30 second commercial. The NFL wasn't amused.
see http://www.radiocrow.com/news_docs/caught.htm for details.
Remember the good old days, when radio lagged behind TV? Even yesterday, I was going nuts, because I'd hear Myron Cope make the call ~2 seconds before I saw it on TV!
I noticed the description of how the key logger worked, vis-a-vis modem operation, too.
... AT ... AT ...)?
Doesn't this imply that, if you believe their description, one could circumvent the key logger by simply sending bytes out to the modem continuously (AT
Until, of course, the Feds found out, and got a wiretap permit, too, and changed the key logger to work at all times...
oh beautiful.. so, in a crowded room, instead of getting hit with that array of annoying songs/rings/whatever, we'll get bombarded by the sound of a hundred TVs transmitting snow?!?!
whoa! timeout! as said in another reply here, when you buy a car, you probably *do* have a collection of components manufactured by a number of companies. Taking your analogy a step further... remember those commercials where ford (?) recommended that you only replace parts with others from their parts company? (sorry.. can't remember right now... "genuine ac-delco parts"??) well, the upstart here is, if you have microsoft shocks, sorry! you *must* use a microsoft engine! and, if you want to sell a car with microsoft shocks, you had to sign an agreement allowing you to use *only* microsoft engines! yeek...
stop the presses! to benefit users, Microsoft has created a new performance metric: Average Distance Between Bytes! Wow! IE minimizes ADBB! Now I feel a lot better!
... let's see those HD sets *fly* off the shelves when consumers see that they can't record those episodes of Baywatch, or the Simpsons, or whatever...